Two separate attacks on US forces based in Iraq and Syria last week injured ... The uptick could be an attempt by Iran-backed militias to put themselves back on the map, so to say, and demonstrate ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria near a strategic border crossing with Iraq killed six Iran-backed militants ... do anything for them.’ Map: Here’s where the ...

In his right hand was a map of the Middle East with Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen painted in black and dubbed "The Curse" while in his left hand was a map showing countries painted green ...

It has reasons to believe this, because when ISIS was on the rise in Syria, it rapidly took over a swath of Iraq – leading to a genocide of the minority Yazidis. In addition, Iran’s Foreign ...

Iran fired missiles into Iraq and Syria and supported local militia attacks on U.S. bases there ...

cross the Nile in Egypt and traverse Syria’s deserts rather than brave any routes via Iran (see map). Image: The Economist No longer. Such is the pull of its eastern neighbour that Iraq has ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became ... forged alliances with Iran and its network of proxies, including Lebanon-based Hizbullah. America’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 provoked these ...

Syria’s confessional map is diverse, with a Sunni majority ... Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’, opening a ‘Shia crescent’ from Bahrain, through Iran, Iraq and Syria, to the Bekaa Valley and the ...